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- Citizens of the World Advocate for Women, Peace, and Security at the CCUN
11/01/2010 -- This week, to celebrate ten years since UNSCR 1325's passage, hundreds of global citizens gathered with United Methodist Women at the Church Center for the United Nations (CCUN) to strategize on new and creative ways to hold governments accountable for th...
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10/28/2010 -- In "Voices from the Frontlines," women from conflict areas around the world shared their experiences on why women need to be involved in decisions that define just and reconciliatory processes on every level.
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10/26/2010 -- Women's Division head Harriett Olson spoke on the importance of women's involvement in peace and security issues for an event on implementing United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 on Women, Peace and Security.
- Organizing for Mission
10/13/2010 -- United Methodist Women President Inelda González addressed directors, guests and staff at the annual Women's Division board of directors fall meeting, paying tribute to the work of early women missionaries and challenging attendees to be proactive in miss...
- Nothing Was Ever the Same Again After That
10/08/2010 -- Women's Division head Harriett Olson opened the annual fall board of directors meeting with a message of hope that today's mission efforts could be pivotal events for good in the lives of women, children and youth.
- International Day of Peace Event
09/20/2010 -- On the International Day of Peace, September 21, at 2:00 p.m., the Tillman Chapel at the Church Center for the United Nations will be the place of fusion and fission. We come together, we find one another and we inspire one another to be bolder peacemaker...
- The Hypocenter as Peacemaking
09/15/2010 -- On September 21, 2010, the International Day of Peace will be observed at the Church Center for the United Nation's Chapel, with an event entitled "The hypocenter as peacemaking."
- Hiroshima 'Hibaku' Survivor Piano to Be at Tillman Chapel
09/07/2010 -- The Women's Division of the United Methodist General Board of Global Ministries welcomes a Global Harmony Peace concert featuring the Hibaku "Survivor" Piano September 13, 2010, at 6 p.m. in the Tillman Chapel of the Church Center for the United Nations.
- The Experience Hall of Assembly
05/02/2010 -- Assembly's Experience Hall offers participants an opportunity to learn about justice issues – and be entertained.
- Baltic United Methodist Theological Seminary Marks Anniversary with a New President
08/17/2009 -- Tallinn, Estonia--The 15th anniversary of the largest United Methodist theological seminary in Europe was marked by the installation of a new president and an espiscopal address linking the role of theological schools to the practice of Christian mission....
- Women's Division Head Calls Hope Key to Future
04/27/2009 -- Hope is what the world needs, what United Methodist Women offers and what will drive the organization into a vibrant future in Christ's mission, Women's Division chief officer Harriett Jane Olson told division directors meeting in Stamford, Conn., April 2...
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Link4Life have some fantastic events taking place at Heywood Civic Centre, Middleton Arena & Touchstones Rochdale in the forthcoming weeks.
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Renowned for his hilarious observations and loveable, friendly delivery, Jason has been a firm favourite with comedy fans since his first solo stand-up show earned him huge critical acclaim and a nomination for the Perrier Newcomer Award back in 2005. Jason has added extra shows to his latest tour due to phenomenal demand. This show promises a wealth of comedy anecdotes, misunderstandings and audience banter delivered with Jason's likeable charm and teasingly intelligent wit.
"What Manford does best ... classic, chirpy-chappie stand-up." Guardian
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Art & Soul are an art and support group for independent adults in the Rochdale Borough, who have experienced mental health issues. The group are supported by Cartwheel Arts. For this exhibition, Art & Soul have been exploring connections between landscape and emotion, creativity and wellbeing.

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Goetz Foundation to Honor TV Anchor's Late BrotherFARGO – Stephanie Goetz remembers her older brother Cameron as a "vibrant, giving, loving guy" with no shortage of friends.
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FARGO – Stephanie Goetz remembers her older brother Cameron as a "vibrant, giving, loving guy" with no shortage of friends.
But the local TV news anchor said behind the brave face he put on each day in Red Wing, Minn., there was another side to Cam.
"He was struggling and just fighting an internal battle that nobody knew about," she said.
Goetz, then a 17-year-old, lost Cam to suicide in 2002 – just one day before his 20th birthday – after a battle with depression. She's kicking off a new effort to honor Cam and help those like him by providing additional therapists in Fargo-Moorhead schools and publicizing her message that getting help for mental illness isn't something to be embarrassed about.
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Goetz officially launched the Stephanie Goetz Foundation on Tuesday, joined by foundation board members and officials from the Dakota Medical Foundation, with which she's partnered to make this effort possible.
She said she decided when she was 25 that by the time she turned 30, she would find a way to make an impact in the community and share her experiences to help others.
Goetz, now 28, lost her oldest brother Brandon in a 1997 car accident. Five years later, Cam took his life, and she spent years trying to bury the loss before she began to get involved with local suicide prevention efforts.
Last fall, she began looking for a way to help and considered anonymously paying people's bills related to mental health treatment and medications. But a meeting with Read Sulik, Sanford Health's senior vice president of behavioral health services, showed her another option.
"He said, 'Let's not reinvent the wheel; let's use a wheel that's already working beautifully and build on that,' " she said.
Sulik, one of the foundation's board members, said within three months of starting a practice in St. Cloud, Minn., there was an eight-month waiting list for kids and teens in the region to be seen by a child psychiatrist.
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He said Goetz's foundation, which will establish a similar model to help meet local needs, also will help deal with another major hurdle – stigma.
"Eradicating smallpox was not done by deciding we shouldn't have smallpox anymore; it was done by intention," he said. "And how we overcome the stigma of mental illness is intention. How we overcome the barrier of access to care is truly with intention."
Goetz said she plans to launch a pilot program this fall, hiring triage therapists to work in Fargo's Lincoln Elementary School, Carl Ben Eielson Middle School and South High School. She said she'd eventually like to expand the foundation's reach to the all schools in Fargo, West Fargo and Moorhead, as well as other school districts in the region.
She said it's not meant to replace efforts already happening in the schools, but counselors often are busy with other duties and can't find every teen that needs help.
Foundation board member and Fargo Public Schools Superintendent Jeff Schatz said the work could be a valuable new tool for the district.
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Susan Rae Helgeland, executive director of Mental Health America of North Dakota, said Goetz is using her position in the community to put "a lot of power" behind the message that there's nothing wrong with reaching out for help.
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Goetz said the foundation's work will rely on private donations. The Stephanie Goetz Foundation is among more than 175 local nonprofits asking for monetary donations this Thursday during Giving Hearts Day, a 24-hour fundraising event with the Dakota Medical Foundation matching online donations of $10 or more.
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Teaching the Slack Key Guitar has been one of the greatest joys of my life and through the years I've helped many aspiring musicians.
It's an exciting time in distance learning technology and thanks to some wonderful innovations on the 'net, we can share the resources and knowledge of our culture like never before. I've given considerable thought to using the net as a teaching tool which has resulted in the some wonderful innovations. My web-lessons are new teaching methods, enabling you to work faster & smarter. These powerful techniques really work. This wonderful style of music will come alive from beneath your own hands, as you create it from the story of your own life.
Keola has both beginning and intermediate level lessons available, and has post a free lesson to demonstrate how the lessons work.
For over thirty years, Keola Beamer's artistry has helped breathe new life into slack key guitar music while remaining true to the soul of its deeply Hawaiian roots. Born February 18, 1951, in Honolulu, Keola grew up in one of Hawai'i's most famous music families. The Beamers can trace their involvement in Hawaiian music and hula at least as far as the 14th Century.
Keola's sixth Dancing Cat album, Ka Hikina O Ka Hau (The Coming Of The Snow), is not a traditional slack key recording. "It poses a simple question," he says. "Can the palette, coloration and tonality of Ki ho'alu add an indefinable something to the interpretation of songs written by truly great composers?" The answer is a wonderful surprise.
The album features eighteen arrangements of classical compositions by Satie, Ravel, Stravinsky, Mendelssohn, Rimsky-Korsakov, Dowland, Piazzolla and others, as well as two more Hawaiian inspired pieces. For the first time Hawaiian Slack Key guitar tunings have been used to interpret the works of classical composers, resulting in a romantic, winter oriented album that uniquely blends both the Hawaiian Slack Key and classical music traditions.
Famed Native American flutist R. Carlos Nakai joins with Keola in a new album, Our Beloved Land. Nakai, the world's leading performer of the traditional flute with over 3.5 million albums sold, journeyed to Hawai'i where he spent time working with Keola to weave the haunting melodies of his traditional flute into Keola's songs and arrangements. The result is a new music, blending elements of two indigenous American cultures that expresses the cultures of both artists.
Magic in the recording studio just kind of happens. You can't predict it or plan for it ... all you can really do is hope for it. We all know that one aspect of the beauty of music is its special ability to touch the human heart, but we sometimes forget that music has the remarkable ability to transcend time. Here is a recording that has magically touched the hearts of people all over the world and continues to do so to this day.- Keola Beamer
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Dec 10, 2008
Almost the end...
The opposition from certain countries to resolutions is as depressing and predictable as the weather.
As it gets closer to the end of two long weeks, many people I've been talking to are just ready to go home. I'm sure part of it is due to the overcast, rather miserable weather but it's also because the texts that are set to come out of these negotiations are looking far too inadequate.
Yesterday, important wording around the recognition of Indigenous Peoples' and forest peoples' rights was removed from a text on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation(REDD) - a mechanism which I suppose was designed to protect forests, but in its current form can undermine land rights, encourage the conversion of forests to plantations, and reduce the value of forests to their carbon content... among other things.
We remain hopeful that we can get this wording back into the Draft Text, however it was a big blow to Indigenous Representatives here. Actually, that's an understatement. There was outrage, tears and anger, particularly at the four countries who opposed the text - Canada, United States, Australia and New Zealand. Not surprisingly, these are the same (only) four countries that voted against the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007.
Response came in the form of an impromptu protest, and campaigners raising it with several delegates from Indonesia, Australia, the US and more. What impact this will have though is uncertain. With Indigenous Peoples having no official voice in the UNFCCC process, it may require a lot more yelling to get their rights recognised not just in the REDD but in all mechanisms which affect rights to land, food and livelihoods.
Yours in solidarity, hope and a hint of depression,
Civil society against the world bank
Check out this video of the world bank demonstration in Poznan that Friends of the Earth International took part in.


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I've finally added some gallery pages to this blog. They can be accessed via the tab above, or from the pages menu over on the left.
Thank goodness for WordPress and WordPress plug-ins. I was able to put together a couple of small quilt galleries and post them on a new page without much fuss. The most time consuming portion of the exercise was locating all the photos, and preparing a formatted for the web copy of each in Photoshop. There is even a cute widget for the right column that displays three random pics every time the page is refreshed. Fun.
Currently I am designing a portfolio website for an artist friend, and I spent the weekend playing with the various web photo gallery tools out there right now. Lots of great stuff, but none of it seems to work with Adobe Dreamweaver very well. It's especially distressing to own all the latestCS4 tools and learn from the Adobe forums that Bridge generated photo galleries can not be "easily" incorporated into Dreamweaver pages. Nor, according to the forums, is the "Create Web Photo Album" feature of Dreamweaver recommended by the Adobe Dreamweaver engineering team since apparently it has been many years since this feature has seen any "love". Importing any of the cool Fireworks Galleries also appears to be a non-starter. So I'm on to third-party tools or coding up something myself. Flash is a non-starter for this particular website. Web design should not be so hard in 2009.


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Stephen Costello to Headline Donizetti Operas in Vienna and Toronto, Spring 2013
Richard Tucker Award-winner Stephen Costello made his role debut as Tonio in La fille du régiment at San Diego Opera last month. This auspicious start marked the first of the tenor's three Donizetti leads this year, the next of which sees him return to the Vienna State Opera to sing Nemorino in L'elisir d'amore opposite his wife and frequent co-star, Ailyn Pérez, (March 1-8) before taking on Edgardo in David Alden's groundbreaking staging of Lucia di Lammermoor at the Canadian Opera Company (April 17-May 24).
Now Costello returns for a third consecutive season to the Vienna State Opera, singing Nemorino opposite his wife and fellow Tucker Award-winner, soprano Ailyn Pérez, in Otto Schenk's iconic staging of L'elisir d'amore. Stephen had this to say about his upcoming performance: "I'm very excited to return to Vienna to sing a great opera at a beautiful house, alongside my beautiful wife, Ailyn, who I have not seen in over a month. The audiences there are wonderful, it's a great company to work for, and many great artists have performed this role on that stage, so it is incredible to be part of it."
The tenor's Nemorino has been justly celebrated on both sides of the Atlantic, inspiring Opera News (speaking of his Michigan Opera Theatre performances) to pronounce him "a first-rate talent"; the UK's Arts Desk declared that, at Glyndebourne, "Costello's Nemorino was a revelation." His collaborations with Pérez have also consistently won praise for their potent chemistry; the two are profiled in the cover story of Classical Singer's February 2013 issue, they were featured in the June 2012 Issue of Vanity Fair, and they were recently billed as "opera's hottest couple" at Los Angeles Opera. They headlined L'elisir at Michigan Opera in March 2009.


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In the new charge, a man told Castleton Police that Devers-Scott struck him repeatedly following an argument Saturday night.
Devers-Scott practiced midwifery in Mendon for 18 years. The Vermont Office of Professional Conduct revoked her license following the death of one baby and injuries that resulted in brain damage to another.
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Sometimes the best investment is to buy high and sell higher.
According to Jim Cramer, that may well be the case with Bank of America. The stock, he says, is a buy, right here.
"Mainly, it's because of the sector," said Cramer. Remember, about 50% of a stock's movement has to do with its sector.
And Cramer thinks 2013 could be a terrific year for the big banks.
"The economy's continuing to recover: the housing market is rebounding, consumer lending is improving, even jobs and business investment are coming back, albeit slowly," he said.
The relative strength could even result with slightly higher interest rates – something Cramer said would be fantastic for the sector.
"Second, many of the worries that had been holding the banks back are now in the rearview mirror," he added.
That is, Europe appears to be stabilizing. Politicians stemmed the fiscal cliff. And over the course of the next nine months, the last three major parts of Dodd-Frankwill be clarified by the regulators.
Also Cramer said a settlement among big banks on the mortgage put-back issue with Fannie Mae should be bullish.
Considering the case outlined above, you might not be surprised to hear that Cramer expects a 'return of banking as an investible place to put money' to be an important theme across all of 2013.
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But he's particularly bullish on BofA for a few specific reasons.
"The company's been restructuring, taking out huge costs and cleaning up the balance sheet," he said. "Bank of America has been winning share away from rivals, it's starting to have loan growth again, and the company has a housing kicker," he said.
And even though Bank of America gained 108% in 2012, the stock trades at a 30% discount to its tangible book value.
"In other words, it's still cheap," said Cramer.
"Not only is Bank of America improving, but it has a lot of room for improvement, which means its stock has a lot of room to run," Cramer concluded
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State University of New York at Buffalo Ph.D Biophysics
Courses Teaching:
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Free Radical Chemistry:
The focus of my research efforts is on elucidating the mechanisms by which DNA is damaged by ionizing radiation and oxidative stress. Radiation induced DNA damage results from either direct ionization of the DNA macromolecule or from free radicals generated within the surrounding environment. Of particular importance in my research is assessing the influence that water content has on the formation of radiation induced DNA damage products.
Eukaryotic cells contain double stranded DNA bearing about 6x109 nucleotide base pairs. A polymer of this size if fully extended would be about 60 cm in length. In order to fit inside the cell nucleus, which is about 50mm in diameter, DNA must undergo a 100,000 fold reduction in apparent length. Nature solves this dilemma in eukaryotic cells by wrapping genomic DNA around the histone proteins, forming chromatin. The compaction of DNA into the small volume of the nucleus, as well as association of DNA with histones and other nuclear proteins(enzymes, lamins, microfilaments, etc.) results in the exclusion of bulk water near the DNA. The DNA in chromatin exists as an intermediate between the solution state and the solid state.
Classically it has been thought that irradiation of the bulk water surrounding the DNA produces free radicals( e.g. the hydroxyl radical and the aqueous electron) that can diffuse to and react with DNA. In my work with Dr. Steven Swarts( Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem NC) we have been able to establish that the water molecules located closest to the DNA are qualitatively different from bulk water. The irradiation of the water molecules tightly bound to the DNA, within the first hydration layer, will damage DNA through a charge transfer mechanism. By this mechanism, electron deficient "holes" and electrons from the first hydration layer migrate to the DNA. The damage from charge transfer processes is similar to damage expected from direct ionization of the DNA(e.g. base release, dihydrothymine, dihydrocytosine), but different from that expected from bulk water radical attack on DNA(e.g.strand breaks, thymine glycol). This is significant because the tightly bound water molecules, which have largely been overlooked, constitute approximately 50% of the water that surrounds DNA in a cellular environment, with the other half constituting bulk water. Further characterization of the tightly bound water molecules and their role in radiation induced DNA damage is necessary. I plan to extend this work to consider the effects of irradiation of DNA in the presence of free radical scavengers such as thiols, and in the presence of nucleoproteins.
The measurements described above are obtained from reverse phase high performance liquid chromatography(HPLC) and gas chromatography/ mass spectrometry (GC/MS) techniques that have been developed and optimized to quantify irradiated DNA end products. Novel product identification and characterization are done using the GC/MS in total ion mode, or using proton 1D nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.
I am interested in elucidating the structure/ activity relationships between DNA processing enzymes and various damaged DNA substrates, with a goal of developing sensitive techniques for detection of DNA damage in vivo.
It has been shown that for equal exposure to ionizing radiation, the yield of DNA base lesions in vitro is at least two orders of magnitude higher than what is observed in irradiated cells . Similarly, chromatin has been shown to be 100 times less susceptible to strand breaks and base damage by ionizing radiation and oxidative stress compared to histone depleted DNA . The protective effect of histone proteins, compact higher order chromatin structures, and cellular repair processes, are likely responsible for the empirically observed differences in damage susceptibilities. This emphasizes the need for development of highly sensitive assay techniques in order to detect irradiation or oxidatively induced damage within a cellular system.
As part of my graduate work with Dr. Harold Box (State University of New York at Buffalo/ Roswell Park Memorial Cancer Institute) I characterized the structure / activity relationships between radiation damaged DNA and endonuclease P1 from Penecillium citrinum.
Nuclease P1 is an endonuclease which functions as a phosphodiesterase, cleaving the bond between the 3'-hydroxyl and 5'-phosphoryl group of adjacent nucleosides. Nuclease P1 is capable of hydrolyzing single stranded DNA and RNA completely to the level of mononucleoside 5'-monophosphates. During my studies I had found that the efficiency of nuclease P1 in hydrolyzing the phosphodiester bonds of substrates damaged by ionizing radiation or oxidative stress may be significantly altered by modifications to the 5' terminal base. The hydrolytic activity has been shown to be reduced by several orders of magnitude with the loss of base aromaticity resulting from saturation of the 5-6 double bond of thymine when present on the 5' terminus. Several DNA lesions were determined to be slowly hydrolyzed or completely refractory to hydrolysis by nuclease P1.
DNA is hydrolyzed completely to the level of mononucleoside 5'-monophosphates by nuclease P1. Damaged DNA species that were refractory to hydrolysis were isolated as dinucleoside monophosphates by high performance liquid chromatography(HPLC). A probabilistic model was derived to calculate the hydrolytic course of a DNA polymer by nuclease P1 in order to isolate slowly hydrolyzed species. As a result of this work, a sensitive 32P postlabeling assay has been developed for the detection of the formamido remnant of pyrimidine bases, a refractory lesion to nP1. The technique has successfully been applied in quantifying this lesion in irradiated keratinocytes. Currently I am extending this technique to assay for DNA base lesions which are slowly hydrolyzed by nP1. I plan to extend the technique to detect abasic sites within a DNA polymer. I plan to further develop this method of detection of radiation and/or oxidatively induced DNA damage using different enzyme systems, and hope to apply the techniques to detect and characterize DNA damage in vivo.
Falcone, J. M., Becker, D., Sevilla, M. D., Swarts, S. G., "Reactions of the Dry and Aqueous Electron with Hydrated DNA: Hydrogen and 5,6-Dihydropyrimidines", Radiation Physics and Chemistry,72 257-264 Feb 2005 (Christianne Ferradini Memorial Issue)
Falcone, J. M., Box, H. C., (1997), "Selective hydrolysis of damaged DNA by nuclease P1 ", Biochemica et Biophysica Acta 1337: 267-275
Razskazovskii, Y., Swarts, S. G., Falcone, J. M., Taylor, C., Sevilla, M.D., (1997), "Competitive electron scavenging by chemically modified pyrimidine bases in bromine doped DNA: Relative efficiencies and relevance to intrastrand electron migration distances" , J. Phys. Chem. 101 :1460-1467
Falcone, J.M., Box, H.C., Miller, J.H.," Catalytic Activity of Nuclease P1: Experiment and Theory" Radiation Damage in DNA:Structure/Function Relationships at Early Times(Eds. A.F. Fuciarelli, J.H. Miller, J.D. Zimbrick) Columbus, OH, Battelle Press, 1994, pp346-353


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Nicole Marie wrote:Did you hear that we started a new opera program on Beethoven Radio!?
Saturday Nights at the Opera started last Saturday at 8PM... Each Saturday at 8PM EST tune in and hear a full length opera, commercial free! This Saturday (7 April) will be the Marriage of Figaro!
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Volvo hereby invites the media to a press conference on Friday, February 6, in conjunction with the release of the Volvo Group's report on the fourth quarter 2008.
Standard & Poor's has assigned an "A-" long-term corporate credit rating with stable outlook for AB Volvo and affirmed the A-2 short-term rating.
Volvo Buses is now taking a further stride in its global expansion through the launch of the Volvo 9700 in the US and Canada. For the first time in more than 20 years, buses with the Volvo brand are being sold in North America.
Volvo Aero will initiate negotiations with the Trade Unions regarding redundancy of 250 blue-collar employees. At the same time, the company plans to reduce the number of white-collar positions by around 100 through planned retirement and a reduced number of consultants.
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Loyalty doesn't matter for Parliament's party hoppers
I remember an MP saying to me once that we were due for a death of an MP or Senator. We hadn't had a death for a while, and statistically we were due one.
I couldn't help but think that we were due the defection of an MP, when I heard about Ray Hopper jumping ship. There hadn't been a defection since Peter Slipper up here and statistically it was always going to happen.
Ray Hopper is the state MP for Condamine, which is the area out the back of Toowoomba. He was elected to Parliament as an independent – a dairy farmer who made his name at the local dairy cooperative, and prior to that a meatworker who was very active in the Meatworkers Union.
In 2001, Hopper joined the Nationals, with whom he stayed until Saturday when he went to Bob Katter's Australian Party.
It has become clear that Bob Katter has a formula for building his party in Parliament, and it has nothing to do with solid grassroots campaigning or electioneering. Katter likes to recruit from parliamentary ranks.
In fact, there is an eerie echo of Bob Katter Sr here, which makes me wonder whether Katter has some Freudian issues.
Katter Sr started as a union activist in Brisbane and during the turmoil in the ALP in the 1950s he left and joined the Country Party, going on to be preselected for the federal seat of Kennedy.
But they say Katter Sr, despite being patronised by the Country Party (and later National Party), given the support and resources to run for and win the federal seat of Kennedy, always considered himself a Labor man.
With that type of role model, it's not surprising that Bob Katter Jr had the same sense of loyalty. As soon as John Howard started to say "no", Katter Jr went out on his own.
Peter Slipper had the same ideas about loyalty. He started with the Nationals, went to the Liberals and then became an independent. If he had even the slightest hint of a union background, I believe Katter Jr would be knocking on his door tomorrow.
To prove the old saying true, that "birds of a feather flock together", Ray Hopper has shown that he's out, he's in, and he's out again. Hopper's the name, nominative determinism has done the rest.
I don't believe that Hopper was ever a true independent. He was elected in 2001, and since then he's made 307 speeches to Parliament. This is an average of 28 a year.
Compare Ray with Liz Cunningham, who since being elected in 1995 has made 1089 speeches – or an average of 68 speeches a year.
Liz Cunningham doesn't have the support of a party, and yes she does tend to become (in her words) a "one woman house of review" around budget time. But she started as an independent, and she has remained an independent.
She doesn't have the luxury of an issues specific policy officer to provide her with the answers. She has to do this work herself.
When the Nationals wooed Ray Hopper to join the party, they thought they were doing the right thing by getting Hopper in the tent. Only in hindsight, with his weekend defection now out in the open, can those people appreciate how wrong they were.
Particularly considering the fact that the Nats lost a loyal and capable member of Parliament, Stuart Copeland, in the redistribution prior to the 2009 election.
I met Copeland once at a conference in the 1990s, when he was the state president of the Young Nats and vice president of the Federal Young Nats. At the time he was touted by many young Nats from New South Wales as being a genuine talent to watch in the future. I think they wanted him for themselves.
Copeland was elected to the seat of Cunningham in 2001 as a National Party member. He was the person who raised Jayant Patel in Parliament, and the person who, in a public hearing about the issue of overseas trained doctors, questioned Gordon Nuttall, who lied to the committee.
When Stuart's seat of Cunningham was abolished in 2009, he was blocked from running for preselection in the new seat of Condamine on a technicality. He ran as an independent, but didn't win.
The tragedy of this rule is that the Nationals lost a truly excellent MP and a talented politician, and got the time serving Ray Hopper instead.
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Murray says:
I don't often agree with Bob Katter - however he is an honest man, unlike the members of the ALP and the LNP who are only interested in power and have zero interest in the future of this country.
Give me an honest person, not beholden to party factional hacks, any day.
Murray says:
I don't often agree with Bob Katter - however he is an honest man, unlike the members of the ALP and the LNP who are only interested in power and have zero interest in the future of this country.
Give me an honest person, not beholden to party factional hacks, any day.
DJ says:
Could be interesting, if the KAP garners enough seats from the LNP in rural areas to deny the LNP a federal majority an intereesting minority government with Katter calling the shots would be highly entertaining, not good for the country though - I'm feeling conflicted
fairsfair says:
Ultimately the only people they let down are their constituents. MPs should not be able to defect during term. By all means announce your defection prior to an election, but changing your fundamental ideology halfway through is not a good thing. I would certainly remember it if I lived in Condamine. I know a lot of people who vote on the back of independent status due to deep seeded opposition to particular parties and to elect an independent and have them form an alliance or formally defect is not what the voters signed up for. The fundamental attraction of the independent is just that - they are supposed to represent an individual who looks at things independently and does not toe any party line.
I don't agree with the KAP either. Rather the creation of a Party he should have gone down the path of a co-op of independents should have been formed with an appointed spokesperson. No leader and the spokesperson should have rotated throughout the year. It would have lead to the debate of individual issues and whilst some may argue that that would be too time consuming, I'd much rather be confronted to that level of debate in the house and the media than the current tosh that is being discussed (ie the participants, not the game).
Katter is nuts anyway. Fantastic politician, gets things done but he is just a shithouse communicator and there is no getting away from that. Sad thing is Julia, with all your mention of Katter Jr all I kept thinking about was when we will start on the Katter Jr Jr? Its never ending in the BobKat department!
sven svensenburger says:
Well, the reason they're leaving is obvious and it is because of Can Do Cambell Newman who is going to be a one hit wonder in Queensland. He will be out at the next election and out is the best word to use for him and his mates in the NLP.
That's it from me because it is not worth wasting any more fresh air on him or his party. Queenslands won't cop this for much longer.
RichardB says:
The problem for Katter's Australia Party is .... well….it's Katter's Australia Party. It's all about Bob. He chose that name for a reason. I can't imagine he is the sort of inclusive Leader Hopper is looking for. KAP's policies don't come from members or supporters. They come from one man - Bob. KAP has too many egos in too small a room to become a viable alternative.
TheRealDave says:
Despite asking many times now I haven't found anyone who can tell me how the vastly vastly outnumbered and minority Queensland Liberal Party, who have always struggled to hold more than about 6 seats in the Queensland Parliament (and nearly all their seats being in the SE Corner) suddenly gained the upper hand and took over the Queensland National Party which has ALWAYS been the dominant conservative force in Queensland.
Sgt 'I see/hear no dissent or negativity' Newman is a Liberal Party member and represents Liberal Party interests. For all the talk of a united LNP what we are starting to see is the diehard old school Nationals pull back on the reigns and say 'Wait a second…....' as they are starting to realise they've been conned by the Queensland Liberal Party.
I think we are going to see more National Party led cracks in the future the longer Sgt Newman wields the whip.
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